Limnology of the Meromictic Island Copper Mine pit lake
The BHP Billiton owned Island Copper Mine pit near Port Hardy, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada, was flooded in 1996 with seawater and capped with fresh water to form a meromictic pit lake (maximum depth 350 m and surface area 1.71 km ). The pit lake is being utilized as a passive treatment system fo...
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12769 |